2.3.6
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 2 / 2.3.6
शब्देभ्यः
śabdebhyaḥ
The line
For a word.
Where it sits
In Brahma Sūtra (सूत्र), adhyāya (अध्याय) 2. Avirodha. The teaching does not collide with reasoning, or with the other systems, in the way an objector claims. The line is short. pratijñā-hāniḥ (प्रतिज्ञा-हानिः) from 2.3.5 is still in force. A sūtra (सूत्र) leaves a word out when the line before still holds it. That carrying is anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति).
Split: śabdebhyaḥ (शब्देभ्यः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| śabdebhyaḥ (शब्देभ्यः) | dative or ablative plural | a word |
The phrases
śabdebhyaḥ (शब्देभ्यः) is a word. It stands as dative or ablative plural.
Hold the words in that order. The English of the whole line comes after them.
Sanskrit in this line
śabdebhyaḥ (शब्देभ्यः) is dative or ablative plural. That ending is the work an English preposition would do.
Say it back
Cover the English. Gloss śabdebhyaḥ (शब्देभ्यः).
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2.3.7. yāvadvikāra (यावद्विकार) but, disjunction, as in the world.